| Honestly this article had some poor arguments. Like Apt being fantastic-it isn't-see below. I do not see what the hate around snaps are for. Yes, some snaps are not updated, and VLC only working in the home directory as another HN commenter said is a pain. Snaps still solve a lot of issues on Linux that Windows does not have. What happens if the new version of your editor breaks some well known plugins? On Windows you just install the older version from the archives. On Linux you risk dependency issues. Snaps are a single command to switch to an older version. Very important in both the software and media space. One option is to stay on the LTS version of Blender. Another is back when I used Atom, one upgrade completely broke a popular plugin for me because of a change in Chrome. I thought it would be fixed quickly so didn't revert the package and I lost the older version in the cache. Took the Atom devs 2 weeks to handle the change to Google Chrome-then Arch maintainer of the Atom package didn't get around to upgrading it for a week or two after that. Things like apt pinning really don't help you when you discover the issue on your main workstation. Also, doesn't change the fact that it is so much easier to revert on Windows. Snaps make version control even easier to do on Linux then Windows. The back-end being proprietary is a good argument. but for a company that has worked so long with Linux and Free Software; give Canonical a little trust to release it. |